Furniture Costs Rise As Spring Market Opens
High Point North Carolina reports higher prices due to rising production costs and better construction. January and February orders exceed 1961 by 19.4 and 28.9 percent respectively. Southern Furniture Exposition marks seven week backlogs as 15,000 buyers arrive for the market.
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High Point
N.C
Markei
Morente
Southern Punukture Manuacturers Association
Southern Furniture Expositions
Thomasville
Lexington
Hickory
Lenoir
Drexel
Winston-Salem
English Love Laughing At Selves In Oddities Of The Times
Ronald Thomson recounts amusing Britain as the Weekly New Statesman tracks oddities from torpedo warhead labeling to bureaucracy and odd newspaper notices. From a Margate slogan to Bath’s engineering outing, the piece surveys lighthearted slips of fate and public desks.
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Ronald Thomson
London
Kenturies
England
West Wickham
New Statesman
Admiralty
Margate
Connell
North of England
Bridgend
Bath
Stanley Engineering Co
Southsea
Colummn
Wcastle Journal
Spring fashion in New York features Ben Barrack sheath
A Chinese green spun rayon sheath by Ben Barrack is showcased in New York with cut out white embroidery. The design emphasizes a natural waist and trimmed bateau neckline while a note signals changes in employment policy expanding eligibility beyond female applicants to all genders.
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New York
Ben Barrack
Historic Legal Documents To Be Shown
Public exhibit at the University of Virginia School of Law will display Williamsburg legal documents never before shown, including items involving George Washington Patrick Henry and Benjamin Harrison. The 1692 land grant to Sir Edmund Andros bears the English royal seal, with other papers detailing a general court judgment and a letter dated 774. A 1788 Patrick Henry document grants 306 acres to James Carson, Revolutionary War veteran.
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Charlottesville
Williamsburg
Law Bay
University of Virginia School of Law
E. Godwin Jr
West
George Washington
Patrick Henry
Benjamin Harrison
William
Queen Mary
Edmund Andros
Virginia
England
General Court
Edmund Jennings
George Withe
Ad Randolth
James Carson
Carpenter To Study At Chapel Hill
Langley AFB Lt Malcolm S Carpenter returns home with about three weeks to go before his Mercury Atlas orbital flight. He is slated to study stellar navigation at the University of North Carolina Moorehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill before heading to Cape Canaveral for final training.
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John Glenn
Malcolm S. Carpenter
Glenn
Langley Afb
Carpenter
Chapel Hill
N.C
Cape Canaveral
Moorehead Planetarum
University of North Carolina
Tate
Daily Half-Dozen Exercise Program Promotes Health
Shape Up With Daily Half-Dozen presents six exercises designed by noted athletic coaches to improve youth and adult fitness. The program advocates 20 minute workouts twice daily, proper diet, and healthy habits, with full line sketches and dotted line movement aids.
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White House
Ares
Wamers
Virginia Civil Defense probe update and Chesapeake rail derailment
In Richmond a Federal Civil Defense official said Virginia CD operations probe should finish in about a week or two, with Gov Harrison noting an isolated Spotsylvania surplus property issue. Norfolk reports a Seaboard derailment near Richmond and a regional plan meeting May 1 to save Old Bay Line service between Baltimore and Norfolk.
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Richmond
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Scarborough
Olney
Douglas L. Moore
Virginia
Harrison
Spotsylvania County
Spotsylvania
Norfolk
Maryland
Baltimore
Bue
R.A. T. Larson
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce
Arthur W. Sherwood
A de Peale Museum of
Moore
Secretary of State
Army
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
Thomas Jefferson
Allie
Investil
Santi¢ Treaty Organization
Stahr
Petersburg
NATO
Ina
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Jer Reno
Jsrov
Lee
EAS
Mercury
Somines
Johnson & Johnson
RED
Amer
National Red Cross
Rg Rey
Reveille
Law Society
Karminski
Lincoln
Wwe
Buc Eall
Virginia News
Birmingham
Seaboard
Peggy Ann Goldwater
U. S
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Tartalls
Avalon Partient
Europe
Uni
Smithfield
Pastry Shoppe
Ballou Park
Dess
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